New Tech Meetup: Standing Room Only

This week’s New Tech Meetup was standing room only. It followed on the heels of a Silicon Flatirons event, which was informative and educational. The excitement in the room was palpable as Julie Penner brought the meetup to order. BpCentral started the meetup by introducing Liquid Scenarios. It’s a “suite of proprietary software technologies that …

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BrainJam 08

Dave Taylor pinged me today to tell me about a fun event he’s organizing called BrainJam. Here’s the info he sent over: Connect with the brightest folk in Colorado @ BrainJam! Early in 2007 I hosted an event that we informally called BrainJam and was really delighted at how it worked out. We had about …

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VCIR: SocialThing in the hizzle

Socialthing is a Techstars company which has not launched publicly yet. The company plans to extend their current private beta to a wider audience next week at SXSW. They showed off their integrated lifestream which aggregates the social activity of all your friends into a single spot and also lets you push out content to …

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VCIR: Format Dynamics, Yieldex

The Format Dynamics presentation was interesting. As Brad Feld once put it – They solve the “prints like shit” problem. The Denver-based company enables nice-looking printing of online content. If you’ve ever tried printing a document from Firefox or Explorer, you’ve seen super duper ugly crap at its very best. By partnering with large publishers, …

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Todd Vernon is also liveblogging VCIR

If you don’t give a crap about VCIR, at least you only have to deal with these posts all in one day. At least you’re not me, currently sitting through a pitch on semi-conductors in a language that I don’t recognize at all. I just noticed that Todd Vernon is also live-blogging VCIR, and making …

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HiveLive announces 5.6M in new funding at VCIR

HiveLive (covered previously, but significantly evolved since then) announced 5.6M in new funding from GroTech Capital and existing investors today. It was fun to watch John Kembel start off his pitch today with “Well, some stuff has changed since two months ago when we started preparing for VCIR, and now we’re done (fund raising)!” Previously, …

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